In the video interview above, filmmaker Raja Amari talks about the making of Buried Secrets, her second feature film set in Tunisia, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2009.
Posts in ‘Artists’
November 21, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions,
Publications
A Closer Look at Christina’s World
Andrew Wyeth. Christina’s World. 1948. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2012 Andrew Wyeth
In 1949 The Museum of Modern Art acquired a modest-sized landscape painting from the Macbeth Gallery on 57th Street in New York City for $1,800—then considered a hefty sum for an artwork. The painting would go on to become one of the most recognized images in American art,
Drag Queens and Chalices: The Art of Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt
In the video below, take a tour of multimedia artist Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt’s studio. His mixed-media constructions, collages, and installations—marked by a trashy opulence concocted from household items and dollar stores—are the subject of the exhibition Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: Tender Love Among the Junk, on view at MoMA PS1 through April 1, 2013.
Mapping Subjectivity: A Conversation with Filmmaker Ali Cherri
In the video interview above, artist Ali Cherri describes the conceptual approach framing his exhibition Bad, Bad, Images, that opened this past winter in Paris. Pipe Dreams was “extracted” from this exhibition installation, and here the artist explains how he came to transform a two-channel video installation into single-channel video.
November 16, 2012
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Artists
Sean Vegezzi, Artist and In the Making Alumnus
Portrait of Sean Vegezzi. Photo by Andrew Kass
Sean Vegezzi is a 22-year-old alumnus of our In the Making program, which offers free art classes to NYC teens. Like many students attending public schools here in the city, Sean came to us as a high school student who was seeking an outlet for his creativity as well as a public platform to showcase his work.
November 15, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions
Division and Multiplication: Arman’s Multiples
Comprising more than 53,000 artworks, the collection of MoMA’s Department of Prints and Illustrated Books tells the story of modern and contemporary art through editions: art objects that can exist in more than one copy. As you might guess from the name of the department, the vast majority of these are works on paper; however, the collection also represents the rich tradition of three-dimensional editions, known as multiples.
November 9, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions
Mapping Subjectivity: A Conversation with Director Damien Ounouri
In the video interview above, filmmaker Damien Ounouri talks about his film Fidaï, which inaugurated the film exhibition Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part III
November 8, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions
A Curator Observing an Artist Being a Curator
Trisha Donnelly installing Gallery 22 on the fourth floor of the Museum (artist’s back is to the camera)
It has been just about a year since the artist Trisha Donnelly was invited to be the tenth artist to participate in Artist’s Choice, an ongoing series in which a contemporary artist is asked to create an exhibition from the The Museum of Modern Art’s vast collection.
November 5, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions
New Photography 2012: Anne Collier
In the audio slide show above, photographer Anne Collier talks about her work featured in New Photography 2012.
October 29, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions
New Photography 2012: Birdhead
In the audio slideshow above, the Shanghai-based artists Ji Weiyu and Song Tao, who work together under the collective name Birdhead, talk about their installation in MoMA’s New Photography 2012 exhibition.
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